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Pictures and discussion of fragmentary finds from the Tugen Hills of Kenya, dated to 6 million years ago. Preliminary analysis of the 2000 finds suggests a wholly or partially bipedal hominid also adapted to climbing trees.
http://www.modernhumanorigins.com/tugenensis.html
Image gallery of chimpanzees and gorillas.
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Image Galleries of Apes (Chimpanzee and Gorilla Adrian Warren photo library The PRIMATES APES Click Images to enter their Galleries Mountain Gorilla (Gorilla g. beringei) Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) To Main Index [Last Refuge home page Adrian Warren photo library Contact Us Copyright Notice] Web site designed by: Dae Sasitorn...Summary of species, proposed taxonomy and timeline for fossil hominids.
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Fossil Hominids Permission is given to copy and print this article for non-profit use. Table of Contents Introduction Hominid Species Timeline Prominent Hominid Fossils Alternative Taxonomies Summary Creationist Arguments The Australopithecines Homo habilis Homo erectus Java Man Peking Man Piltdown Man and...Picture and discussion of the fossil cranium TM 266-01-060-1 (Toumaï) found in Chad in 2001. It is estimated to be between six and seven million years old. Until other early hominid fossils are found to provide context it cannot be known how this species relates to the human, chimp, or even gorilla lines.
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Fossil Hominids: Toumai Sahelanthropus tchadensis Discovered by Ahounta Djimdoumalbaye in 2001 in Chad, in the southern Sahara desert (Brunet et al. 2002, Wood 2002 Based on faunal studies, it is estimated to be between 6 and 7 million years old, and more likely...Lecture notes on the superfamily, composed of Hominidae, the human line, and Pongidae, the great apes. Comparison chart of the four living great ape species, table of cultural behavior in chimpanzees, references and links.
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Lecture 21 Hominoidea The oldest fossil closest to the stem group of the hominoidsmay be ?Aegyptopithecus zeuxis from Lower Oligocene of the Fayum basin west of Cairo (Egypt The earliest adequately known hominoid is Proconsul africanus, a baboon-sized species from Kenya (Carroll, 1988...Defining characteristics of living species in the three primate families Hylobatidae (gibbons), Pongidae (orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas), and Hominidae. (humans).
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Superfamily Hominoidea Characteristics size range 4 kg 200 kg located mostly in tropical rainforests of Africa and Southeast Asia (exception humans) tubular tympanic bone dental formula 2.1.2.3 broad incisors primitive molars with rounded cusps broad palates broad nasal regions large brain no...